Locations

Location

Locations

For this peice of work India, James and Tom all has input on this, whilst photographs were added. I contributed taking the photo's and giving my group idea's about the location and what would suit our film the best and make it seem more realistic and professional. I also said that we needed to make sure we had consent, for example using the pub which we will need concent from the land lord.


Our group came up with ideas on where we would like to film our horror movie to make it as effective as possible. We decided that we will film in multiple locations, so that we make the audience think about where these locations are and if the killings involved are linked. We decided to have our antagonist’s workplace as a car bodyworks garage which is located in Great Leighs. We have chosen this because it can be a quiet place where no-one knows the goings on inside. There is a large supply of murder weapons and tools of his trade. We could film this at any time during the day, as it will not matter whether our light source is natural or not. However filming at night will personify our antagonist’s personality, as he is a dark character who is aiming to kill. We also think that the garage is a good location to choose because it is a dark and scary place which is synonymous with the horror genre.


We will also film outside a pub because our antagonist meets one of his victims and we film them both leaving the pub and getting into his van. The pub we will be filming at will be located in Broomfield .This shows the innocence of the victim as she doesn’t know what is going to happen to her. This also makes our antagonist more vulnerable because he is seen in public, but at this time in the film no-one suspects him to be the killer. We will film outside the pub at dusk, so we have some natural light, but also it shows the end of a meeting in any normal circumstances, which is making our short film all the more realistic. This location is an important part of the film because it shows our antagonist in public and also makes the audience question what is going to happen to the woman that he leaves the pub with.

We will be filming our news report outside the front of Chelmer valley high school. This will be because in our film all the murders are linked, they are only linked because the people that have died all where in the leaving class of 1995. This shows that all the victims come from here as the background of the school symbolises it. We will be filming this during the day as will we try to make the report as realistic as possible. So we will probably film the news report during one of our media lessons. The news report will be the ending of our opening of the film; we have chosen to do this because it leaves the audience with a sense of suspense about what is going to happen next, if we were to make the entire film.

We will also be filming in a woodland area which will be in St. Andrews park which is located in Newland Spring. We have decided to choose this location as a scene for or first murder. The Kingsford production team has decided that the woods is a good place for the victims body to be because it is dark, scary and it gives the audience a sense of fear, because the image of the corpse will be hard hitting. We will film the killer’s feet walking away from the victim through dead leaves, which connotes more death and destruction, showing that the antagonist is killing everything in its path. This will also be filmed at dusk to show the transfer from light to dark, just like the killers personality.